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This Month in Education: November 2025
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Volume 14 • Issue 11 • November 2025
In This Issue
- Auckland Museum's Wiki Summer Student Programme is back for 2025 & 2026
- Edu Wiki camp 2025 in Belgrade, Serbia
- Wikidata na Escola: estudantes da zona rural de Minas Gerais contribuem com dados sobre mulheres negras brasileiras
- 190 students from Oteitza Lizeoa create 48 articles on the history of the Basque Country for Txikipedia in one day
- 2nd International Congress Wikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures – WECUDI
- Africa and Proud Leads Wiki Classroom Project Across Three Nigerian States
- November 2025November 2025/Annual Czech Wiki Conference took place on Saturday, Nov 8th
- EduWiki Meetup at GLAM Wiki Conference 2025
- Highly productive autumn education activities in Macedonia
- Kannada Wikipedia Asian Month 2025: Edit-a-thon & Workshop Highlights from Loyola College, Karnataka
- Kosovo Wikivoyage Editathons in Gjakova and Krusha e Madhe
- Ukrainian educators create open lesson plans based on the «Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom» course
- United Architects of the Philippines Student Auxiliary – University of Nueva Caceres joins Wikisource Training
- Videos on Teaching Experiences with Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, and OSM
- Wiki as a tool for technological empowerment of indigenous knowledge
- Wiki Science Competition in Albania and Kosovo
- Wiki Workshop 2026 Call for Contributions
- Wikipedia Contribution with Faculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences Students in Kosovo
- Impact of Wikimedia Rwanda Wiki Clubs in Growth of Wikimedia User Group Rwanda Community
The Signpost: 1 December 2025
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- News and notes: Election cycles come and go, and Wikimedia Foundation achieves record revenue in 2024–2025!
- Disinformation report: Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress
- Traffic report: It's a family affair
- Book review: The Seven Rules of Trust
- From the archives: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein ..."
- Humour: An interview with Wikipe-tan
- Serendipity: Highlights from the itWikiCon 2025
- Comix: Madness
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Wikidata weekly summary #708
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #707.
week leading up to 2025-12-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #707.
Discussions
- A Project Chat discussion (here) on mul / fallback language for Labels, Descriptions and Aliases has continued on Help Talk: Default values for labels and aliases
Events
- Upcoming events:
- Mark your calendars
- Workshop: The Swiss archival landscape – Wikidata and interactive map
February 2 & April 20 (German) / June 2 (French), 2026. Workshops are on-site and online, registration mandatory (closes January 20). - Citizen Technology Community Gathering and Taiwan Translation Launch of Linked Open Data Documents December 7 Time: 13:30-16:50 UTC+8 at West District (Q707524) Xi Project
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #83 December 8 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
- Workshop: The Swiss archival landscape – Wikidata and interactive map
- Mark your calendars
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- Papers: Benchmarking SPARQL Engines on Wikidata Queries - Four open-source SPARQL engines were benchmarked on Wikidata, with QLever fastest, Blazegraph slower, and all showing SPARQL standard deviations. By Peter F. Patel-Schneider (2025).
- Videos:
- Records in Contexts (RiC) Wikibase Working Session - Regine Heberlein of the (SAA) Description Section Steering Committee hosts a workshop on Wikibase implementation of the Records in Context Conceptual Model (RiC-CM).
- Wikidata Live Editing: Stolpersteine and the Holocaust victims they commemorate - Follow along as WMDE's Lukas Werkmeister expands Items of Berlin Stoelpersteine.
- Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature - by Dr Thneed
Tool of the week
- Prix Littéraires lists French-speaking literary prizes and their recipients, also computing statistics (see also WikiProject)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Nov 27: The Wikibase Community User Group met for a Wikibase Live Session and to discuss the Federated Values demonstration.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest External identifiers: Federal Taxpayer Registry ID, WDSF athlete ID, TikTok numeric user ID, USGS Publication ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- concurring opinion by (judicial opinion agreed to by less than half of the members of a court agreeing with the majority's final decision but providing different or additional reasons)
- audio version of text (The audio version of a text (e.g. book). Not the audio version of the Wikipedia article about the text (e.g. book).)
- Hong Kong fire alarm level (Hong Kong fire alarm levels classification system)
- overnight stays (number of tourists that stay overnight at a place)
- specimen determiner (person who assigned the identification to a specimen)
- collection date (the date-time or interval during which a specimen or object was collected in the field)
- position holder name string (name of person holding a position)
- Crowdfunding target (target goal of this Crowdfunding campaign)
- image sensor format (shape and size of a digital camera's image sensor)
- random page URL (link to random page on website)
- translates from (language(s) that this person, company or organization translates works texts from)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Twitter broadcast ID, Petal Maps Place ID, MJ character glyph name, Mastercaller player ID, dartn.de player ID, darts1.de player ID, pdpa.co.uk player ID, Antiquitatum Thesaurus ID, Theaterencyclopedie-identificatiecode, Buy Me a Coffee username, GoFundMe ID, Identifiant Maitron d'une biographie (nouvelle version), Michaelis Portuguese-English properties, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System name slug, FCC ID Database company ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Objects bearing the handwriting of Moses Maimonides (Source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Uzbekistan, Natural History Specimen Data Model
- Newest database reports: Popular Items without Claims - these are the most-connected or linked Items that do not have any Statements.
- Showcase Items: The Walt Disney Company (Q7414) - American multinational mass media company
- Showcase Lexemes: Showcase Lexemes: девочка (L103836) - Russian noun (dʲɪˈvot͡ɕkə) meaning "female child", "affectionate address to a woman", or "female organism"
Development
- Mobile editing of statements:
- We have added editing support for more data types (entity IDs, geographical shapes and tabular data).
- It is now available as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org. You can enable it here.
- Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: We are rolling out improvements to the Databox Lua module to a number of Wikipedias to make it easier to have out-of-the-box Wikidata-powered infoboxes
- Ontology federation: We are making progress with making it possible to use Wikidata Item's as statement values in other Wikibase instances
- GraphQL: We are continuing the work on the prototype, focusing on getting data from a batch of Items
- Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is working on benchmarking of different replacement options for Blazegraph, the software powering the Wikidata Query Service
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Togo
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!